The Islamic Republic of Iran executed an Israeli spy who was convicted of playing major role in the 2010 assassination of a top nuclear scientist.

The Islamic Republic of Iran executed an Israeli spy who was convicted of playing major role in the 2010 assassination of a top nuclear scientist.

"Majid Jamali Fashi, the Mossad spy and the person who assassinated Masoud Ali Mohammadi, our nation's nuclear scientist was hanged Tuesday morning,” the official IRNA news agency reported quoting Tehran prosecution office.

Local media on August 28 reported that Jamali Fashi was sentenced to death after being "convicted of placing a bomb-laden bike and blowing it up in front of martyr Ali Mohammadi's home, collaboration with the Zionist regime and Mossad."
Jamali Fashi stood trial as the main suspect in the killing of Ali Mohammadi, a particle physics professor at Tehran University who was killed in a bomb attack outside his home in January 2010.

Jamali Fashi also faced charges of cooperating with Israel's spy agency and of having received $120,000 for passing on intelligence to Mossad, the agency added.
The Islamic republic has blamed the Zionist entity and the United States for the killing of four of its scientists and nuclear experts since 2010.